It says a lot about CSS–based design when you run your first check on a complete draft, and it comes out as valid XHTML, CSS, and hits Section 508 accessibility guidelines without any changes needed. It’s also rather gratifying when only a few slight revisions are needed to get a triple–A from Bobby.

It is, however, a pain in the ass that adding a simple link to an accessibility validator will break your XHTML. I find it excessively picky that “url=myurl&content=” can’t simply be copied and pasted into an href. Instead you must re–format that to “url=myurl&amp;content=”.

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Tell me about it. This is one of those cases where I often times acknowlege that it doesn’t validate and try (keyword here) to move on. I usually last about 10 minutes before I get in there and fix the damn thing.